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When Kids Go Back to School This Fall, Pandemic-Era Free Lunch Will Be Gone

Debt incurred by US families who can’t pay lunch fees runs up $262 million a year

A nutritional staff member pushes a cart of lunches past the empty cafeteria at Crums Lane Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky.

A nutritional staff member pushes a cart of lunches past the empty cafeteria at Crums Lane Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky.

Photographer: Jon Cherry/Bloomberg

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It’s Kelsey Butler, a Bloomberg Equality reporter in New York, here to talk to you about a big back-to-school expense. But first…

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